Copyright term, film labeling, and film preservation legislation : hearings before the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session, on H.R. 989, H.R. 1248, and H.R. 1734 ... June 1 and July 13, 1995 (1996)

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617 IV. TERM EXTENSION MAKES SENSE AS A MATTER OF UNITED STATES LAW The argvunents for term extension are not new. They were valid and compelling when we revised our law and extended our copyright term in 1976, and remain so today. A. The Arguments In Favor of Term Extension Expressed in the Legislative History of the 1976 Act Are Still Compelling Today When the effort to revise the 1909 Copyright Act, which ultimately led to enactment of the 1976 Copyright Act, began, it was clear that the 1909 Act's total term of 56 years (a 28 year initial term plus a 28 year renewal term) would be lengthened. The initial inquiry focussed on whether that longer term would be for a fixed term of years or would be based on the life of the author plus an additional period. Guinan, Duration of Copyright, in Studies on Copyright. Vol. 1, pp. 473-502 (The Copyright Society of the U.S.A. 1963); "Duration of Copyright," in Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law, in Studies on Copyright. Vol. 2, pp. 1247-1258 (The Copyright Society of the U.S.A. 1963). Almost immediately thereafter, a consensus on a life-plus-50-years term was reached. Many sound arguments were advanced for lengthening the term of copyright (at that time, from the two-term total of 56 years to a single term of life-plus -15